Venezuela

• Wednesday, October 22nd 2014 - 01:52 UTC

  Venezuela “fully prepared” to cope oil price volatility and will honor sovereign debt

  

  Venezuela's Finance Minister Rodolfo Marco said on Tuesday that the Mercosur member was “fully prepared” to cope with price volatility on the global oil market and would honor a 3 billion dollar bond payment due next week.

• Friday, October 17th 2014 - 06:53 UTC

  Russia's Gazprom forecasts oil at 70 dollars a barrel in the short term

  

  The global oil market slump looks likely to continue, with prices possibly nearing 70 dollars a barrel in the short term, an official of Russian gas producer Gazprom said. Crude fell more than on dollar a barrel on Thursday to a four-year low below 83 a barrel as growing concerns over the global economy stretched a four-month rout.

• Friday, October 17th 2014 - 06:15 UTC

  Venezuela celebrates Security Council seas as “a victory of Hugo Chavez”

  

  Venezuela celebrated on Thursday as a great diplomatic success “and a victory of Hugo Chavez”, having been voted by the UN General Assembly to join the Security Council for two years as a non permanent member.

• Thursday, October 16th 2014 - 07:30 UTC

  Venezuela 'ripe' for default on foreign debt forecast Reinhart and Rogoff

  

  Venezuela will almost certainly default on its foreign debt, according to Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. They add that the beleaguered Latin American economy has already defaulted on “every conceivable kind of domestic debt”.

• Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 06:06 UTC

  Santos confirms he authorized FARC leader to attend peace talks in Cuba

  

  Colombian guerrilla leader Rodrigo Londoño has made secret government-authorized trips to Cuba several times in the last year to meet with his team of negotiators as part of peace talks to end 50 years of civil war, Colombian officials said.

• Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 01:47 UTC

  UN Human Rights Council calls for immediate release of Venezuelan dissident Leopoldo Lopez

  

  The United Nations adopted a resolution Wednesday decreeing the Venezuelan government should immediately release Leopoldo Lopez, the opposition leader who has been imprisoned for almost nine months in connection to the violent protests in Caracas in February.

• Friday, October 10th 2014 - 05:34 UTC

  WB tribunal rules Venezuela must pay ExxonMobil 1.6bn dollars for 2007 nationalization

  

  A World Bank arbitration tribunal has determined Venezuela must pay ExxonMobil Corp. around 1.6 billion dollars to compensate for a 2007 nationalization, the award posted on the ICSID website on Thursday showed.

• Tuesday, October 7th 2014 - 06:16 UTC

  Ambassador Castro criticizes 'holdouts' and thanks UK unions' support for Argentina

  

  Argentine ambassador in the United Kingdom, Alicia Castro has fiercely criticized the conduct of holdout investors and thanked UK unions for their support in the dispute with 'vulture funds', during an address to the British umbrella trade union UNITE.

• Friday, October 3rd 2014 - 06:15 UTC

  Chavista lawmaker stabbed at his home in Caracas: “intentional homicide” argues government

  

  Robert Serra, a young “Chavista” ruling party lawmaker, died after being stabbed in his home in Caracas in an “intentional homicide,” government officials said, in Venezuela's latest high-profile violent crime.

• Thursday, October 2nd 2014 - 06:24 UTC

  Mysterious outbreak of hemorrhagic fever syndrome in Venezuela kills ten

  

  An outbreak of a mysterious hemorrhagic fever syndrome in the Venezuelan state of Aragua and the country’s capital Caracas has left ten people dead in the last three weeks. Reports indicate that nine people have so far succumbed to the disease in the northern state and a tenth person has died in the capital.